He told her he crashed while trying to avoid a gravel truck that had taken a curve on his side of the road.

An hour after the accident, she found him before emergency crews arrived. He suffered broken bones and a severed spine, leaving him paralyzed from the chest down.

Normally Tim would have put his phone on his motorcycle, but that morning he put it in his pocket. Because of that, he was able to reach his phone. Otherwise, he may have spent hours on Hammonton-Smartville Road waiting for help.

The couple wants the driver of the gravel truck to know he changed not only a man’s life forever, but the lives of several others as well.

“I just lay there in bed and think about all the stuff the can’t do anymore,” she said.

Tim’s 10-year-old son doesn’t understand why his dad will never walk again.

Despite his injuries, Tim is in good spirits and is expected to be released from the hospital next week, says Rose. From there, he will go into rehab, learning how to live the rest of his life in a wheelchair.